CBJ Lounge XVIII (All Non-Sports, Non-Political Talk Here)

The parking facility I manage also has 1,000 storage units. In 6+ years of working there, with auctions held on average 9 times a year, and with each auction probably averaging 7-8 units, I have seen maybe one unit that would have been worth bidding on - and the bidding on that unit was pushed well further than I would have ever dreamed. So, staged? Absolutely, positively, 100% for sure. That show angers me beyond angry too, now we get every hillbilly in the Inland Empire coming to our auctions thinking they're going to strike it rich - only to buy someone else's ratty clothes and furniture.

I hate that show.

My guilty television pleasure? iCarly ... my daughter likes that show, and I more often than not catch myself watching it with her.

Don't judge me!

Don't you love the whole TV show effect? Look at the Extreme Couponing show. Now everyone thinks they can do it and some supermarkets are changing their approaches to how they accept coupons so they don't lose money.

Love the music, but the cookie monster vocals wear me down pretty quick.

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Originally Posted by Timeless Winter

It's good.

Enough for me?

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Staged or not, I love watching Storage Wars on A&E. Basically I like seeing the interesting artifacts they show and how much they're worth, not so much the drama behind the bidding wars on each storage unit.

Every episode of Storage Wars...

Auctioneer: Okay folks, we have a unit here with a bunch of random garbage in it. There appears to be a leaking bag of rusted pop cans hanging off of a mounted moose head as the centerpiece. Bidding starts at $50.

Jarrod (interview room): There's some stuff for the store in there. If nothing else, we can scrap the metal and take a huge loss on whatever we're paying.Brandi (interview room): Jarrod is an idiot if he wants to spend more than $0.15 on a single unit. On the other hand, one of those pop cans might be in good enough shape to keep his balls in, since the mason jar in the pantry is getting a yellowish haze on it.Darrell (interview room): I think I see a briefcase full of cash in the back; it's actually open and there appears to be at least $10,000 in plain sight. I'm not bidding more than $500 on this.Barry (interview room): The moose head would be a perfect hood ornament on a 1936 Stutz Bearcat, which I happen to own.

(Auction begins; bidding quickly runs up to $75).

Jarrod: $100!Brandi: (kicks Jarrod in the taint, then complains about how quickly he falls over)Auctioneer: $100 going once....$100 going twice.....$125? $125?Dave: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPP!Auctioneer: $125, do I hear $150?Mark (dressed like a cross between a Russian mobster and a pimp): $150,000!

Mark (digging through mounds of garbage): If this empty can of Pringles has the Mr. Pringle head logo on it, it could be huge money. One of them sold for $13,000 online recently. Once I sell that, I can succeed in having myself dipped in solid gold.

Auctioneer: Okay folks, we have a unit here with a bunch of random garbage in it. There appears to be a leaking bag of rusted pop cans hanging off of a mounted moose head as the centerpiece. Bidding starts at $50.

Jarrod (interview room): There's some stuff for the store in there. If nothing else, we can scrap the metal and take a huge loss on whatever we're paying.Brandi (interview room): Jarrod is an idiot if he wants to spend more than $0.15 on a single unit. On the other hand, one of those pop cans might be in good enough shape to keep his balls in, since the mason jar in the pantry is getting a yellowish haze on it.Darrell (interview room): I think I see a briefcase full of cash in the back; it's actually open and there appears to be at least $10,000 in plain sight. I'm not bidding more than $500 on this.Barry (interview room): The moose head would be a perfect hood ornament on a 1936 Stutz Bearcat, which I happen to own.

(Auction begins; bidding quickly runs up to $75).

Jarrod: $100!Brandi: (kicks Jarrod in the taint, then complains about how quickly he falls over)Auctioneer: $100 going once....$100 going twice.....$125? $125?Dave: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPP!Auctioneer: $125, do I hear $150?Mark (dressed like a cross between a Russian mobster and a pimp): $150,000!

Mark (digging through mounds of garbage): If this empty can of Pringles has the Mr. Pringle head logo on it, it could be huge money. One of them sold for $13,000 online recently. Once I sell that, I can succeed in having myself dipped in solid gold.

Yeah that's how it goes. Which is why I could do without the drama part and just go straight to the neat stuff, like the 1920's old school penny adult film machine that Barry had.